344 



Upper plumage chocolate brown, all the feathers except those of the head 

 white shafted ; cheeks, ear coverts, throat, breast, under tail coverts and sides 

 of the body deep brownish black, paler on the latter parts ; abdomen white ; 

 upper tail coverts black ; middle pair of tail feathers shiny fulvous, the rest 

 dark brown with fulvous edges ; under wing coverts white ; legs and feet 

 dusky plumbeous; lower mandible dull smalt or pale blue, upper mandible 

 black ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 4-5 inches; wing 1-9; tail r8 ; tarsus O55 ; bill from gape 

 0-45. (Gates.)* 



Hab. Tenasserim in the south, where Davison found it nesting. 



883. Amadina acuticauda (Hodgs.\ Hume, Sir. F. viii.p. 107. 



Munia acuticauda, As. Res. xix. p. 153; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 356, No. 702; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 450; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 93 ; David el 

 Oust., Ois. Chine, p. 343. HODGSON'S MUNIA. 



Upper surface of the body deep brown, the shafts of all the feathers, except 

 those of the forehead, whitish ; chin, throat and cheeks black ; ear coverts 

 fulvous with lighter centres ; wings very dark brown ; tail black ; rump white ; 

 breast and sides of the neck dark brown, the feathers pale shafted and with 

 fulvous edgings ; abdomen and sides white with indistinct arrow head marks 

 of brown ; flanks and under tail coverts fulvous, mottled with fulvous white 

 and the shafts pale ; under wing coverts buff. Bill with the upper mandible 

 blackish, the lower one plumbeous ; iris dark brown ; legs plumbeous. 



Length. 4*5 inches ; wing 2 ; tail r8 ; tarsus O'5S ; bill 0*4. 



Hab. The Himalayas, extending into Assam, parts of Burmah and Mala- 

 yana. Jerdon says that in the Sikkim Himalayas it ascends to at least 5,000 

 feet, and is tolerably abundant near cultivated land. Its nest is not unlike that 

 of its congeners, and the eggs too, both in colour and number. 



884- Amadina Striata* Linn., Syst. Nat. \. p. 306 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 107 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p 365. Fringilla leuconota, Temm., PL 

 Col. 500, fig. 2. Munia striata, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 356 ; Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs Ind. B. p. 448 ; Wald., Ibis, 1874, p. 144; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 600. 

 Munia leuconota, Blylli, B. Burm. p. 93. The WHITE-BACKED MUNIA. 



Upper surface of the body rich dark brown, darkest on the forehead ; all the 

 feathers, except those on the forehead, conspicuously white-shafted ; ear 

 coverts and sides of the neck the same as the back ; cheeks, chin, throat, and 

 upper breast, dark blackish brown; wings and tail dark, nearly blackish 

 brown ; middle tail feathers exceed the outermost by 0-5 inch ; lower breast, 

 abdomen, and vent white ; flanks brown with white shafts. Under tail coverts 

 darker brown with less conspicuous shaft lines ; upper mandible blackish, 

 the lower one bluish ; iris reddish brown ; legs greenish horny. 



Length-- 4-5 inches; wing 2 ; tail r6; tarsus 0-5 j bill 0*4. 



